[GRLUG] Client/Server Database app question

[Bill Creswell]

My experience with PHP would tell me that you can probably find lots
of similar apps and code to look at and use for this type of project.

You can do a lot with page formatting, and IE (maybe others) has
support for the CSS
page-break-after:always that you can use in a div or hr to force page
breaks in the right places.

In fact, PHP would be so easy, I would say try it first.

On 1/18/06, Chris Lamrock <clamrock at nmtdie.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> We are using a very old windows based database program I wrote in Foxpro
> 2.5 - and updated in Visual foxpro 6.0 in 2001 or so.
>
> I am thinking of a complete revamp and am also thinking about a
> Client/Server type setup.
>
> My thoughts are SQL with a web browser front end.  I haven't done anything
> like this before but thought it might be a good/fun project.
> This software is a database of job quotes and will have to print out a
> single page quote perfectly formatted - as well as display it on the screen.
> The software will allow the user to enter/add/print/view/delete and search
> for documents.  My current version has about 6 databases.
>
> Questions:
>
> What would be a good language to write this in? Perl?
>
>
> Is a "perfectly formatted document" printout doable from a web browser?
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
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